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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-01

to cut and make her own gowns and to con-
coct presentable hat, from last years leav
ings, sometimes. She grows ambitious as
she gains i'll intelligence and education, and
not infrequently graduates into better work
than that with which she began.
Miss Dodge's Thirty eighth Street Club
she acts as its presiding officer, though she
says it is more than capable of managing its
own affairs-is only a type of the newly
developed working girls guilds 1t is not
now safe and in two or three years it will be
impossible to form any estimate of the con
dAtion of the younger generation of the
prisoners of poverty without taking these
organizations into account In very brief
period of time, and largely through the in
SEPARATION of Miss Dodge's work, from eigh-
teen to twenty such clubs have come into
existence, and in the metropolitan district,
counting New York Brooklyn, Jersey City,
Hoboken and Yonkers together, they count
from 5000 to 5000 members. They have
organized without public notice and with
out public knowledge the independent girls
who compose them shrinking from any news
paper celebrity lest the clubs might he
branded as charitable schemes. The allied
societies have a general board of directors
of which Miss Dodge is the head and their
joint action holds out promise of brighter
days ahead for the working woman,
the like of which New York has not yet
seen.
Cooperative lodging houses for self-sllp-
porting girls are among the practical plans
outlined for the near future. The Fourth
Street Club, made up for the most part of
the employees of a straw hat factory, will
open, as said at the outset, such castle of
refuge on Monday This society, the Girls
Endeavor Club it calls itself, is as enterpris-
ing body of young women as the city con-
tains, and il its plans work, its example is
likely to he followed by the greater part of
all the clubs in town. The working girl is
capable enough-she shows her executive
ability abundantly in the trades unions
and now that Miss Dodge is giving her a
little intelligent guidance she is likely to
build up monument worth having to her
name. ELIZA PUTNAM HEAToN.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-01
TEE PAuPER,s DRIVE.

There's grim one-horse hearse in a jolly round
trot-
To the chmrchyard a paupcr IS gojre, I wot;
The road it is rough. and the heSgse has no
and hark to the drge tha, The Old driver sings:
Rattle his bones over the stones,
lie is only ananper whom nobody owns
On. where are the mouners? Alas, there are
none.
He has left not a gap in the world now he's
Not tear in the eye of child, woman or man.
To the grave with his carcass as fast as you can.
Rattle his bones over the stones
He's only pauper, whom nobody owns
What jolting and creaking, and spiashing and
The whip how it cracks, and the wheels how
How the dirt right and left Ger the hedges is
hurl'd
Rattle his bones over the stones.
He is only pauper, whom nobody owns.
Poor pauper defunct! he has made some APP
To gentility now that he IS stretched in a coach;
lie Is taking drive in his carriage at last;
But it will not be long if he goes on so fast.
Rattle his bones, over the stones,
He is only pauper, whom nobody owns,
You pumpkins who stare at your brother con
veyd
Behold what respect to a cloddy is paid,
And be joyful to think, when by death you're
laid low
You've a chance to the grave like a gemman to
go.
Rattle his bones over the stones,
He is only pauper, whom nobody owns.
But truce to this strain, for my soul it is sad,
To think that heart in humanity clad
Should make. like the brutes, such a desolate
end
And depart from the light without leaving a
friend.
Bear softly his bones over the stones
Though pauper he's one whom his Maker
yet owns. THOMAS NOEL.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-01
Salaries of Japanese oficials.
From ne I1aR Man Gazettc.

From Tie PtH Nal Gazette.
japanese officials are not paid exorbitant
salaries The minister in the foreign depart
nent receives &t,00O while the vice minister
has 1888, and the maximum for director of
bureau, $500. The ministers at London,
Paris. Vienna. st. Petersburg and Washing
ton receive e2, $50 per annun at Berlin and
Rome, e2,3l0. and at The Hague, IL, $50
These salaries include wife's allowance of
$500 a year. Counselors OF legation in Lon
don st. Petersburg, Paris and at Washing
ton get 81, 050 per annum, including wifes
allowance of ESQ year In Berlin, Rome,
Vienna and at The Hague they get 81 0l0pel
annum, including wife's allowance of from
e230 TO $3.50 a year In Europe and America
secretaries get from e540 TO e950 per an
chancelors E420 and loss. Coming to the
consular service the salaries are: London
consul, $3.50; Lyons, consul, $3.50; New York,
consul general, 81 900; San Francisco. con
sui, ESQ: Honolulu, consul general, II 600
IN the fighting services the Foreigners have
decidedly the best of IL. A major and a
captain in the War Department, for instance,
receive 600 and eS0i per annum, reSpec-
lively while natives Of the same rank on the
staff are paid Gl92 and GIG. The only
general OF the japanese army with Il 900 a
year IL the one officer who exceeds in his pay
that of the foreigner. In the Navy Depart
ment the admiral receives 81 1913, and the
minister of marine & 900, but French
naval constructor draws E3,667 n year
There are fifteen British ofiicalse IN the
Navy Department, receiving from k34O u
.g76S per annum The peace establishment
of the Japanese army is about G0eQQ. alia
the navy SAL.
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In General Debility, Bmaciation,

Consumption and Wasting in Children,
Scott's Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with
Hypophosphites is n most valuable food and
medicine. 1t creates an appetite for food,
strengthens the nervous system and builds
up the body. Please read ~ tried SCOTS
Emulsion on n young man whom physicians
ut times gave up hope. Since he began using
the Emulsion his cough has ceased, gained
flesh and strength, and from all appear
ances his life will be prolonged many years.
JOHN SULLIVAN, Hospital Steward, Nor
CANA, Pa.
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-05-26

to tell you that did not pitch him into
the East Rrve-. Gaughter.) To-day
there is a reeking fetid literature under
the feet of our children. 1t is enough to
destroy the virtue of the whole nation,
and it is time that all ministers rose up
in one great protest against this pros
tituted literature.
"Avoid all books which try to excuse
crime. It is too bad that so much fine
binding is wasted to make sin attractive.
When you paint crime paint it writhing
in the pains of the hospital. Cursed be
the authors who write them.
"The depraved and unclean literature
is doing vast amount of evil. l like
pictures. There is many man who has
been blest for all time by a picture.
Painting belong to the aristocracy of art;
engraving belong to the democracy of
art. God speed the good pictures. but
what shall say of the prostitution of
this art to make unclean prints? They
are to be see on every street corner. One
young man may see enough iniquity in
one of these pictorials TO blast his soul
forever. Young men, buy none of this
pictorial strychnine. A mans no better
then the pictures he loves to look at
You can tell a mans character by the
pictorial priAts he buys at the news stand
When Satan can'tget man to read bad
book, he can sometimes get him to look
at bad picture. Aid good books, cher
ISL good newspapers. A column in g
good newspaper may save your soul; a
paragraph in bad one may blast it for
ever -
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-05-26
STORY OLA BOTG UEREAU.
His Painting Going to the Bath."-How it
Came to America.
Chicago Herald

There is in in this city very good
example of Bouguereau, the famous
French painter, who is best known on
this side of the water by the high priced
and rather suggestive genre pictures
which hang in Ned Stokes barroom at
the Hoffman House. The Chicago pic
ture is owned by Fernando Jones' I'm
like the feshily and very Frenchy siSatyr,
which hangs in Stokes barroo1n, or the
Triumph of Venus" it is very modest
representation of an innocent little maid
carrying to the bath her brother. The
girls face and the baby's little naked
body gave the artist an opportunity to
display the mastery of flesh tints that
made him famous. The picture was
picked up years ago at New York in an
auction room. Mr.. Jones, in rummaging
around Leavitt's establishment, saw this
Going to the Bath" leaning against the
wall In store room on an upper floor,
and discovering that it was Daguerrean,
and, surmising that its owner did not
know its worth, decided to buy it. In
order not to startle the auctioneer with
information that might cost him money,
Mr.. Jones made bid of $50 for three
pictures which wire contiguous, the
Bougueran being one of the three. The
warehouseman considered them SO much
lumber, and without much ado accepted
the offer. The three were at once re-
moved to the st. Nicholas Hotel, and the
buyer promptly on their delivery pre-
sented the two companion pictures one
to the chambermaid and one to the
porter. The one for which SO much
strategy had been employed was tenderly
removed to Chicago.
The story of how a canvas by an artist
who WIS commanding thousands for his
pictures, came TO be knocking around
the lumber room of New York auction
house, was not learned until Fernando
Jones got it from the lips of the artist
himself. The owner when in Paris called
at the famous study and asked the French
man if he had ever painted "Going to
the Bath" Yes, Bouguereaa said, he had
painted it and had sent it to New York.
It had been held out to him that if he
would paint subject, send it to America
and have chrome made, there would be
a great deal of money to divide. So the
girl and the baby were sketched and
painted and sent over. The chrome had
beeIi made, but had never sold. No
money had ever been made out of it, and
the picture had never been returned.
The owner frankly admitted that he had
the painting; that he was in no better
position than the holder of stolen prop
erty, and that he was willing to return it.
This was a very great surprise to the
artist, and not to be outdone in gener-
osity, he promptly replied that it was so
much of a pleasure to him TO see that
he should not think of putting IN a
claim. Mr.. Jones then said that he
should ask one favor-a certificate in the
handwriting of the artist of the genuine
ness of the work. This was promptly
given, and is now in the hands Of the
owner.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-05-26
Uses OF the New Universal Language.
Tho Ap,arican MAGAZINE


1t is as an international commercial
language that the French adopts in Vol
apuk expect that it will come popular
and useful, rather than as the language of
literature or science. The Germans, on
the other hand, while hoping for its po-
pularity ia commerce, look also to max
ing it the common medium of communl-
cation for literature, art and science.
Some of them have even gone so far as
to have attempted to write poetry In it,
with what success do not know. They
would have books intended for Internal
ional circulation, standard scientific work,
and periodicals and books of general re-
ference, printed in it, as religious works,
were once all written and printed in Latin.
1t will probably be many years before
their hopes will be realized; but, judging
from the favor with which Volapuk has
been received, we may fairly anticipate
that it, will, before long, be made practi-
cally notwithstanding, in fact, one of
the labor-saving machines of modern
civilization
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-05-26
A Strange PremOnitiOn.

''Ihose are very peculiar circumstan-
ces," said fourth member of the Sympo-
SUM. "Di6 you ever read that story in
the Century war Notes about the man
whom presentiment told to jump just at
the moment when shell whizzed under
his feet. Well, l witnessed something
almost exactly on the same plan The
directors of railroad had left certain
city to come to Pittsburgh, travelling on
a special car. Soon after their departure
they discovered that they had left their
vice president SO they had 20 go back
after him. Well, they made second
start toward this city. On board were,
among the rest, the superintendent of
the eastern and western divisions of the
road, respectively. The train was on the
eastern division at the time, so that the
superintendent of that division of the
road did not like it when his western col
league came to him and asked whether
he had SCHEDULED i have he replied,
tersely. Are you sure?' asked the other.
Certainly am sure, sir, or [ would not
say So.
'''Ihe other superintendent left him,
hut came back In a few moments and
said: Excuse me, sir, but tell me, are
you certain you have your schedule all
right? DO you mean to insult me, sir?
replied the other. Don't you think ]
know my business? Of course [ have my
SCHEDULED The man from the west re-
treated again and the eastern superin-
tendent turned to the president and ex-
claimed: L guess Mr.. = has had a
little too much. He acts like drunken
man. What was his surprise when he
looked up to see the western once more
standing before him with an agonMed
expression on his face and to hear him
exclaim: For Gods sake, sir, tell me.
Are you absolutely sure of your schedule?
I answered you twice. replied the other
well, don't believe it, cried the anxious
one in tone of determination, and al
the same instant he grasped the bell-rope
and in quick, jerky manner gave the
signal to stop. The air brakes acted SO
suddenly that everybody was thrown for
ward. The engineer seemed to feel some
thing was wrong, for he reversed his lever
opened the throttle wide, and jumped
together with the fireman, and not mo-
ment too soon, for before they got fairly
out of the way freight train came dash
ing around curve and knocked the
locomotive and tender into snithereens
No one was hurt, except the superintend-
ent of the eastern division. His feelings
were wounded. The westerner never
knew what made him do what he did,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-05-26
The Spring Life of Plants.
Popular Science Monthly.

The season of flowers opened unusual
ly early this year-how much more SO
than the average can only be told after
observations have been taken over SER
les of years. Ten years from now it is
hoped that the record will be so com
pIete that, with watch in hand, the hour
may be given when a certain flower may
be expected. There is doubtless floral
clock for the year as there is one for the
twenty-four hours of single day. Per
haps there has been great Phyte- con-
vent1on held somewhere, and MAJ GRITTY,
if not all, of the choice boomers are In
attendance. Each was assigned its place
in the calendar, and if the petals do not
unfold and fade away with the regularity
of the unerring time piece, it is ne fault
of the plant, Upon the surrounding cir
.cumstances, and not upon the plant,
must rest any blame for irregularity. To
anyone who has made a careful inspec
tion of the thoroughness with which the
pussy willow prepares for the coming
spring, even before the first chill of au-
tumn thrills the summer air, it will be
unnecessary to dwell upon this fact.
Even in October days when the leaves
are chasing each other down the road
way. driven by the cruel wind, there are
bright promise of another spGingtime
left behind upon the shrubs and trees.
The foliage may fell, but its work re-
mains. Theirlong summer days are not
for naught. Within the closely knit Gov
ering OF the bud sits the germ of future
branch with its leaves defined and its
flowers planned. Thore who see only evil
dences of death and decay in the leaf
stripped tree are surface sighted. A
plant is never more itself than when it
is fully prepa1 ed for period of reposs.
1t is now most independent and most
highly charged with what the physicist
would ca II the energy of position. The
plants, therefore, that bloom early in the
spring are not idlers Though the rest
of the year, they ripen their seed, or in
other words rear up a 6ne family of
children. Each offspring provided with
an outfit for the early struggles of life
in the sqape of starch, and oil, and pro-
toplasm, is invited to shift for itself.
More than this, the mother plant, if it is
the plan that she shall live on, spreads
new leaves to the sunshine, and the work
of food making goes on during every
day until store of nourishment is pack
ed away for use n the early growth of
the plant the following spring. AS a
rule, spring flowers are made out of last
years material, and, in this sense, are
not as fresh and new as those that com e
later in the season.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-05-26
SunSpt'S Now HOuSa

Washington correspondent OF the
Cleveland Leader writes: Sam Cox will
build new house this summer. 1t will
cost him just about the profits of the sale
of his old Washington home, $4,000. 1t
will be built on New Hampshire avenue
near Dupont circle, and its chief feature
Will b. an entrance of stone and tile, with
steps and porch running two-thirds of the
width of the front. The front door will be
single one. It will be of antique oak
and four feet wide. 1t will open into a
ves&ibusl the floor of which will be Roman
mosaic and beyond this there will be a hall
as big as good-sized parlor. From this
hall wide, winding staircase will rise,
and this will have platform with big
window and cosy window-seat. Further
up there will be a gallery looking down
upon the hall, and beneath this gallery
there will be fireplace with seats of curl
Ously carved oak. At the right of the hall
Will be the drawing room. 1t will be an
elliptical bay-window and its finish will be
ivory and white. The dining-room will
be very large and its finish will be of the
rich San Domingo mahogany. It will
have fireplace with a recess and a chin
ney seat, ana it's walls will, I doubt not,
re-echo with the toasts of many public men.
The library will be on the second floor,
and on the third and fourth floors there
will be a number of large bay-rooms.
The house will be baiIt of red sandstone
and pressed brick. Its roof will be of
tile, and there will be handsome carved
columns at the entrance door. 1t will be
fully as beautiful as the house Cox sold
last year for $4,000, and will make him a
pleasant Washington home.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-05-26
DanenhOwer and the Car.
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin


The late Lieutenant Danenhower en-
joyed describing his first interview with
the Gar of Russia. He had been re-
ceived in st. Petersburg as d lion, and
he was informed that the Gar and
Bzarina had decided to grant him a
special audience. The dead explorer
used to smile as he tCld how he polished
up his French for the meeting. He
knew that French was the diplomatic
language of Europe, and he felt some
national pride in making as good show
ing as possible. On the afternoon ap-
pointed he was conducted through many
passage ways to a small room, where he
was informed TINT the Imperial pair
would meet him at Gatschina. He had
Just pulled himself together, as he had
put it, for stately reception, when he
felt heavy hand on his shoulder, and
he heard rich kindly voice:
"Well I at last see Lieutenant Dan
enhower! I am delighted sir"
The English was almost free from any
accent, and the greeting was in every
way that of man to man.
1t was the Gear who so cordially greet
ed tho explorer. The Czarina was pres
emily introduced, and Lieutenant Danen'
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over declared that he had one of the
most informal and enjoyable calls of his
A Wonderful Discovery.
Tacoma T Ledger.

w. M. Lee, the well known fruit grower
of Tacoma, gives the particulars of a
wonderful discovery of bones of extinct
animals in Washington territory, which
will attract the attention of students of
natural history and archaeology all over
the world. In letter to the Ledger from
Spokane Falls he says:
"The face of the whole territory shows
unmistakabls evidence of great volcanic
upheavals. On my trip through Spokane
county stopped at Latah, and in con-
versation with Mr.. Coplen Of that place
regarding the volcanic formation of that
section, he informed me that he had ex-
amined some large bones of great an
tiquity. Accompanied by Mr.. Coplen |
went to the spring where the relics were
dug oat. 1t is located on low strip of
springy prairie. The excavation around
the spring is twelve or fifteen feet deep
and thirty or forty across. The bones
were covered by several distinct layers.
''The first layer was ancient peat, then
gravel, then volcanic ashes, then layer
of coarse peat. From this spring were
taken no less than nine mammoths, or
elephants of different sizes; the remains
of cave bear and hyenas, extinct birds,
and sea-turtle. The dimensions of some
of the bones of the larger mammoth were
wonderful to look at. The horns were a
sort of tusk and protruded from the head
just below the eyes, extending downward
below the jaws, then upward over the
head, in the act of feeding, the circle of
the horns that extended below the jaws
partially rested on the ground, giving
support to the head, which is estimated
70 have weighed a ten.
s'The horns were worn away several
inches deep at the bottom of the turn,
or half circle, indicating constant use by
rubbing on the ground or rocks. One of
these horns was ten feet and one inch
long, and twenty four inches in circum-
ference. It weighed 145 pounds. One
of the tusks measured twelve feet and
nine inches in length and twenty seven
inches around. It weighed 295 pounds.
The jaw weighed sixty-three pounds. TIE
molar teeth weighed eighteen pounds
each. Some of the ribs were eight feet
long. The pelvic arch was six feet across,
and an ordinary man could walk erect
through this opening. This huge and an
tique monster was eighteen feet and six
inches high, and was estimated to weigh
twenty TONS"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-05-26
Saved The Baby

Brown is big ST. Bernard dog Of Bos-
ton famous for his intelligence. 1t was
his habit to go with the nurse when she
wheeled the baby out for an airing. There
was a high embankment with q steep in
cline going down at sharp angle, and
on one occasion the nurse, going in to
pay visit to some of her friends, left
the carriage with the baby in it perilous-
ly near the dangerous spot. Something
started the wheels in motion and the
carriage rolled down toward the danger
Gus edge; in a moment more it must have
gone over, when Brown threw himself
before the wheels and lay there, holding
the carriage back by the weight Of his
body until the traunt maid returned.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-05-26
And the Bell says Dong! Dong :"
Pec'ks Sun

I happened to be walking behind a
couple of school children the other day,
when one, lad of about years, turned
to his companion, and said:
'Say, Skinny, we don't say 'chestnuts'
no more down to our school, we say
church bell"
Jaw, g'long. Yer tryin' to get off
some gag on me-"
"No, [ haint. Hope to die, and cross
my heart, if I an"
Honestly and truly?"
"Ah, har'
''Weil, then, if there amt no gag, Why
do you say church bell?"
'"Cause it's been tolled before"
Huh! [ don't see anything so very
funny about that"